GraphiteEditor / GraphiteEditor/Graphite

Add lasso selection mode to the node graph as well

Open
#2,532 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Good First Issue Paper Cut
Dominant language
Rust
Stars
27.3k
Forks
1.3k
Avg merge
20h 5m
Merged PRs (30d)
57

Description

Ctrl dragging in the canvas creates a lasso selection instead of a box selection. For consistency, the same should occur in the node graph.

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by locating the canvas implementation of Ctrl-drag lasso selection, then find the corresponding selection handling in the node graph. Confirm that Ctrl-drag in the node graph currently creates a box selection, and make it use the same lasso behavior as the canvas.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
computer-graphics
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
48/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.